'''Full Disk Encryption''' or '''Whole Disk Encryption''' is a phrase that was coined by [[Seagate]] to describe their encrypting [[hard drive]]. Under such a system, the entire contents of a hard drive are encrypted. This is different from [[Full Volume Encryption]] where only certain partitions are encrypted.

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[http://http://www.crypto.com/papers/cfs.pdf|A Cryptographic File System for Unix], Matt Blaze, Proceedings of the First ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Fairfax, VA, November 1993.

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Full Disk Encryption or Whole Disk Encryption is a phrase that was coined by Seagate to describe their encrypting hard drive. Under such a system, the entire contents of a hard drive are encrypted. This is different from Full Volume Encryption where only certain partitions are encrypted.